Word: rams
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...work. After years of relative neglect, modern art is now going through an extraordinary boom in India. Entrepreneurs, engineers and stockpickers enriched by the nation's economic rise have discovered that abstract paintings can make for a good investment, and prices have soared for leading modernists like Tyeb Mehta, Ram Kumar and M.F. Husain. Until recently, though, Sher-Gil had been somewhat forgotten amid the excitement. Because her paintings were declared "national treasures" in the 1970s and cannot be taken out of the country, overseas Indians, the most lavish patrons of art, have avoided buying her works. All that changed...
...Actually, my favorite films at this year?s NYAFF were in a sidebar event devoted to the career of Bollywood director-producer Ram Gopal Verma, culminating in the world premiere of his new movie, Shiva. Those films deserve a column of their own, which, Bollywood fans, I?ll get to next month...
...There is a trick in the pricing, however: When you upgrade the hard drive of the $1,299 white MacBook, it has the same specifications as the black one, but is about $150 cheaper. Also, if you want to upgrade the RAM from 512MB to 1GB, it is cheaper to do so during your initial purchase. (If you upgrade RAM later, you'll have to throw away two perfectly good memory chips...
...choice was the most difficult I have ever had to make. And in some way, I know my choice disappointed my family at the time.I grew up in a Fordham family. My parents met and married at Fordham. Both uncles on my father’s side are Fordham Rams, as are both of my brothers, my sister, one cousin, and countless friends. Our family made frequent trips to Fordham and passed by the campus whenever we visited the Bronx Zoo or the New York Botanical Garden. I watched my first live college basketball games at Rose Hill Gymnasium...
...scale war break out? The L.T.T.E.'s political head in Trincomalee, S. Elilan, says the Tigers are ready to unleash attacks that would be "catastrophically disabling and devastating to the enemy," but adds that the rebels have no wish to "adversely affect the peace process." Government defense spokesman Keheliya Ram-bukwella speaks of "coordinated retaliation" that will "continue as long as the L.T.T.E. targets the security forces." But President Mahinda Rajapakse, a nationalist, declared himself a "man of peace" last week...